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February 13th, 2004, 02:13 AM
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Re: OT: Books, Books, Books.
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Re: OT: Books, Books, Books.
it looks like everybody in there is a stereotype.
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Re: OT: Books, Books, Books.
I don't think Stephen King invented it, in fact I know he didn't. "The Kingdom" was a Danish Drama years ago. I may be wrong about the Title, but it was something like that.
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Re: OT: Books, Books, Books.
it's possible they just have the same title.
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Speaking of Stephen King, I just finished reading his Dark Tower 5 book. It's good to get my fix; unfortunately, he's going to finish this series at book 7 and then "retire". I hope it's not a long retirement. I need my fix.
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I just finished "The Gifts of the Jews", Thomas Cahill's second non-fiction book. It follows his Hinges of History series which started with "How the Irish Saved Civilization". I would recommend "Irish" over "Gifts", however. His third book centers on Christ, the fourth on the Greeks, the fifth will be about the Romans. Cahill is not always evenhanded, but these are hardly books aimed at scholars. He's "dumbed down" and streamlined a lot to make it accessible. All his books are less than three hundred pages so far.
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I don't if everybody saw this, but Kingdom Hospital starts tomorrow night at 9:00 pm. Looks interesting. I just hope I can get my son to bed in time to watch it.
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Re: OT: Books, Books, Books.
I was browsing www.drunkduck.com and i want to ask something: does the 'warrior who's family/village/little dog was killed and is now out for revenge, finds out important stuff about his world blah blah blah' make you think 'must kill cliche', too?
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Re: OT: Books, Books, Books.
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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
I was browsing www.drunkduck.com and i want to ask something: does the 'warrior who's family/village/little dog was killed and is now out for revenge, finds out important stuff about his world blah blah blah' make you think 'must kill cliche', too?
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Sounds like the basic plot for the movie Beastmaster.
I'm starting S.M. Stirling's Island In The Sea of Time, in which the island of Nantuckett gets transported back to 1350 B.C. I was wondering how many more books like this exist. There's Eric Flint's Ring of Fire books, there's the Lost Regiment series (I keep forgetting the author's name), and Stirling's trilogy. I like these type of books. How many more books are out there that I haven't heard of? Does anyone know? |
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